Live Music
The Skinny's guide to live music in Scotland. Our highlights of the best live gigs, and reviews of shows at venues large and small across Edinburgh, Glasgow and beyond, plus previews of the summer's best music festivals.
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FestivalsThe xx @ secret space, Manchester International Festival, 6 Jul
She breathes; we breathe. The quick sting of her plectrum against steel – it reaches us before its amplified echo finds its way out of the speakers. Li... Read more »| 09 Jul 2013 -
PhotosIn Pictures: Cas Rock Presents @ Electric Circus, Friday 28 June
Cas Rock Presents @ Electric Circus, 28 June Cas Rock Edinburgh present a night with Annie Christian, Sawyer and X-Tigers Photography by John Douglas Read more »| 03 Jul 2013 -
ReviewsJagwar Ma @ The Deaf Institute, Manchester, 20 Jun
Promoting their debut album Howlin, Jagwar Ma – Gabriel Winterfield, Jack Freeman and Jono Ma – assume their appropriate positions in f... Read more »| 28 Jun 2013 -
PreviewsNorthwest Gig Highlights – July 2013
It's festival season, but there are plenty of bands still plugging away in the Northwest, including garage rockers Sic Alps, New York duo MS MR and the not to be missed dream-pop of Youth Lagoon Read more »| 28 Jun 2013 -
PreviewsGig Highlights – July 2013
As festival madness descends, we present some picks from T in the Park, Wickerman and Kelburn Garden Party, plus very special gigs from Mogwai, Adam Stafford, Ghostpoet, My Jerusalem, Stefan Blomeier and many more Read more »| 27 Jun 2013 -
Previews
O2 Love Music Column – July 2013
Aside from enigmatic front-man Billy Corgan, The Smashing Pumpkins are near unrecognisable as a line-up for those who first came to the band via th... Read more »| 27 Jun 2013
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Reviews
Africa Oyé @ Sefton Park, Liverpool, 22-23 Jun
After last year’s washout, Liverpool’s free, weekend-long celebration of all things African returned to Sefton Park at the end of June, with the ... Read more »| 25 Jun 2013 -
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Daniel Bachman / Tom Settle / dbh @ The Castle Hotel, Manchester, 19 Jun
America is a big deal again these days. Every new restaurant seems to be a gourmet burger palace; we watch whatever HBO throws at us, and there has been, in ... Read more »| 25 Jun 2013 -
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Bass Clef @ Soup Kitchen, Manchester, 19 Jun
Ralph Cumbers is a multi-instrumentalist, but not a conventional one. His one-man show under the tag Bass Clef is a demonstration of brass and wind inst... Read more »| 24 Jun 2013 -
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Danny Brown @ The Arches, 15 June
Danny Brown's hyper-exaggerated caricature is in full effect tonight. From his mad-haired, gap-toothed appearance to his comically high-pitched voice, i... Read more »| 18 Jun 2013 -
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The Stone Roses @ Glasgow Green, 15 June
Every reformed act must dance with their past one way or another, but today The Stone Roses rekindle history in a very specific way, revisiting the... Read more »| 18 Jun 2013 -
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse @ SECC, 13 June
It would be an understatement to bill Neil Young & Crazy Horse's first Glasgow date since 2001 as an extravagant return. As comically oversized ampl... Read more »| 18 Jun 2013 -
Festivals
Africa Oyé Festival @ Sefton Park, Liverpool, 22-23 June
Free and unfenced, Africa Oyé is a true community festival that this year marks its first couple of decades in action with a broad and stimulating line-up Read more »| 12 Jun 2013 -
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Fucked Up / Titus Andronicus / METZ, SWG3, 28 May
“Can we kill these lights, please?” METZ guitarist / vocalist Alex Edkins asks bluntly, rejecting unnecessary theatrics as the Canadian... Read more »| 12 Jun 2013 -
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Mount Eerie, Nice 'n' Sleazy, 21 May
The endearing Phil Elverum returns to Glasgow for the first time since last Septmber’s Ocean Roar, in which he and others put in further work... Read more »| 10 Jun 2013